The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-21
BIRDS THAT COME HIGH.
$50 REWARD FOR A LOST PARRoT NOT
so IBRT MITCH, after AN.

They often Cost Hirndrcds, and the Mine
Rira Costs NJ .t-Tsikers arc the ESpru.
sive Ones-Lovc Birds ana u i.ovo htory.
Fifty dollars reward for the return Of
gray African parrot was an oncr recently
made in an Advertisement that attracted con-
siderable attention. Fifty dollars seemed to
most people good deal to offor for ono parrot
and tho general opinion was that some Rich
woman had lost her pot. and didn't caro- how
much she spsnt to get 1t buck. whether thas
particular parrot was evor found has not been
announced, but $50 was not such terribly big
price to bid for its return, after all, " " was
much OF bird. according to Donald
Burns, who ought to know what ho Ia TAKING
about, for no has dealt In birds. retail, whoie-
sslo, and every other way. all his lile. lie was
busy In his store down by tho docks In Rooso.
welt street unpackinE q consignment OF seVerai
hundred nasty little green baby parrots Just
received, when he told Sun reporter that
oven those birds were worth from 50 to slo
apiece, and that good talking parrots brought
prices UP into the hundreds of dollars. He had
then only one "talksr" in tho shop, and that
he had refused s256 for. Tho bird Is an ugly
gray one, with rcd markings. and sat up on lie
porch gaming with calm rcorn upon the
scrsschipg mass Of green Young ones crowded
sn; s ss sua hS IS sSs sne sS
worth, NoNOIUlne 70 pSIEVt 1hip %
sny q f,n s1 .v! s SS 1S Fig
saaFs0t ara.s dss acordne 't hs %A%
Of their accomplishment while IN the , hands
P rS.s s s esr 70 S.s Soash $1,000
=: :s ssessSs
s ss o. &. e e b ns ss
mfs al Of them sS, are the nssR
ffhs best fslksrs. the most tractable, and the
Wses come from sha a
In pd hnrs y, sf +. 10 v sss
old, and sometimes it is said have reached
ra T ri r ssss 10 sS dst re
sssas :. %sss GSS ssss;
Sras arc SIMILAR x'T General ezra
straetioa 10 ths paea VS. istcI large gTiISss but
to tor pay Of ths man Who wants to BUY them
Thcrs 10 but one bird dealt IN by the regular
sas: s.i1e sssshss tns sRsf
bses " Y:r. & and and Tesn Eass
smai psrtieS q tho .ops hish trees II the
bs:. With sr;H}n blue md PH1Ips
and and talk. Vt inai,ates tho human Voice more
tnsa ehs sh ss or m hE
bisd, and they have seld for even moro
Fancy pricsf h9wsv'r srS not confined s;.d to
ssfS s %osRns SSss S
brns prices rss.s's3 By ms sze & lady ks
thie thing a. prioe doesn't IN eriore with trade
wasp rich wom an sees bird she wa III h,v.
s,.,n. FIJI sws gsun ns .d go az
to to- grow row. quite t Considerably old snqo She was
in ny store on Broadway once, looking around
love .'s Birds that lad out In separate cage.
They are tho little green things, yopy X, knew.
parrots. Sic WAS greatly taken with them.
and when told psr about how they ST yra
e1e another pSs " they die s' TIL wcua do but
az but ,s t4s ysry enss sas had hrs, seen:
w raF Of az az th Ky Vs 1s haSs se
set my eyes on, and ! hays. have seen r.. |.
years. They used to Sit ali day spuSred up
close to one snothsr, scarcely moving except
tS an h: s or 'G ss ps ~sab s
sonsilsrIns how bad II. wanted them n and sl5
0 to s@ t n HI sns n ne
stead of me sending thenl, and that was tho
last | saw OF her Tor six months. Then she
como here one morning in great stow. Ono
OF her birds bad died the night before: and che
was piter mate for the one that was loft. She
porSeSs and Worried al the iip. She vas look.
ing for new one. She said sho didnt care
what 1t cost. she must get mate for that bird.
Nell. she finally pi"ksa out out, one that she ne
2,, Ss' o psd that fer w as Rs wb for s
on my lands ds' Next Next day she Was baee
teo widowed bird refused to accept The new
nlats aud she must try anoths ons That one
didn't do either. and she kept coming back
than 81 % for birds bsiore sho got ope to suit.
thought she vas op!y cranky. until once sho
couldn't come herself to get another bird and
ssnt down her maid and then found out all
being sentimental like and watching those
had something to do with her I9nd young
fellow shs WAS in love with. SOFT OF super
stious Ike. you know. Thought If anything
happened TO them it was IN omen 3i trouble
why rs She "" was so e.eited and worried VIC when
place. Foolish, wasn't she ? she wasGpretty
rs a picture, though, aud sho paid for the birds
like y little lady. 50 l never said nothing e%-
cept to myself That Is not for 4nsrRhle,
got over being pretty she came into thy 1org
know the love bird business was all over.
When woman buys parrot for herself you
can make up your mind that il she isn't an old
maid, shos disappointed some ways else.